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Brigitte Reimann

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Brigitte Reimann

Germany

Brigitte Reimann (1933–73) was a German teacher and writer. Her novel Ankunft im Alltag is regarded as a masterpiece of socialist realism. She received the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1964.

Articles by Brigitte Reimann

A 1960s black and white photograph of a street in Rostock, East Germany

FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Five O’Clock Train to Rostock

By Brigitte Reimann

This month, Transit Books publishes Siblings, East German author Brigitte Reimann’s first novel to appear in English. In this excerpt, the protagonist discovers that her brother and his wife have defected to the West.

Translated from German by Lucy Jones

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